The Double Soul of Red Mansions

Daiyu lay tossing and turning in bed at night, listening to the slight breathing in the next room, Daiyu felt extremely helpless.Jiamu's house is a five-room house.In the middle is the living room, which is where she will stay today. To the east are two suites, both of which belong to Jia Mu's living quarters. The two connected to the west were originally for Baoyu. The cupboards are separated, but the overall layout can still be seen. The space outside the Bisha cupboard is actually just a place where the maids waited for the night vigil. Fortunately, those servants don't know how to exclude her in their hearts. After all, the vigil can only be outside, and the outside room is not as comfortable as the inside.

Daiyu thought about a lot of things that night, and she fell asleep for a while in the middle of the night. Not long after, she was awakened by Baoyu's voice next door.Because of practicing martial arts, Daiyu's facial features are particularly sensitive. Listening to the movement next door, for some reason, Daiyu felt a burst of anger inexplicably. She really wanted to know what the people outside wanted to do. It's such a big commotion, it doesn't matter if the lights are brightly lit, and there is such a loud noise, do you have any scruples about her as a guest?

"Snow geese." Daiyu shouted towards the outside.

The parrot outside heard the sound and came in and said, "I told Xueyan to go to sleep, what do you want the girl to tell? It's the same if you tell me."

"The sisters live in the west wing?" Daiyu thought that when Sanchun left today, the direction would be the west.Then I thought that since the three rooms on the west side are all full, I can always live in the east side, right?

"Yes, the three rooms in the west wing and the side room are used by the three girls." Parrot didn't know why Daiyu asked this question in the middle of the night, but answered truthfully.

"Then now, help me clean up the east wing, I'm going to live there." Daiyu frowned and said, "You guys are so noisy outside, have you considered how I can rest?"

"Girl, I'm afraid it's not right at this time. How about waiting until tomorrow morning? I'll tell my ancestors tomorrow morning, so I can clean it up for you?" Yingge didn't expect Miss Lin to have such a big temper. Shouldn't you be polite when you are a guest?Why does Miss Lin know so many things?The old lady's ability to keep Miss Lin in the principal room, in Yingge's eyes, shows that the old lady values ​​her granddaughter, but why does Yingge think that Miss Lin is not rare?

Daiyu naturally didn't know what Brother Ying was thinking, she wanted to bring it up at night, but she didn't say it because of Wang Nao's face.In addition, she was determined to win that piece of jade beauty, so she wanted to wrong herself first, but now she must take good care of herself, otherwise she would be exhausted to death by these maids every day in the middle of the night.Besides, she still needs to read books and practice handwriting, she also needs a study room, and she also needs to practice kung fu on weekdays, so it is not a good idea to live like this. As for Wang Mama's scruples, Daiyu thinks that she should be left alone for the time being.

"Sister? You're awake too?" Daiyu didn't say anything, looking at Parrot with dissatisfied eyes, but when Baoyu heard the voice, she ran over barefoot in obscene clothes.

Daiyu knew that this precious jade was her grandmother's precious bead, so she had to endure it, and then she thought that she was determined to get his piece of jade, so she suppressed the pressure in her heart, smiled at Baoyu and said, "Brother Bao, You wake up so loudly at night that I can’t sleep. I’ve been sick since I was a child, and the doctor told me to have a good rest, but we live next door and I can’t sleep at all. My family doesn’t have so many rules, and I always I live alone in a courtyard, usually even Xueyan and Wang Momo are not allowed to appear in my room without incident, but now I am not used to coming to my grandmother's house."

After all, Daiyu lowered her head slightly and continued with a grievance: "I just asked Brother Ying if the East Wing is vacant. I want to live there. I can pay for the daily expenses myself. I just want to raise Good health, so that you can accompany brother Bao and grandmother, don't you think?"

Brother Parrot stood aside, watching Daiyu's face change drastically, and wanted to say something, but seeing Daiyu's unobtrusive staring eyes, and remembering that he was no longer the old lady's maid, he stood aside no longer. side thoughts.

"Sister, what are you talking about? Isn't it good for us to live together?" Baoyu stepped forward and sat on Daiyu's bed. , "My sister hasn't invited Brother Bao to go back to sleep. It's still cold in the middle of the night. It won't be good if I catch cold with my bare feet."

"I won't go." Baoyu ignored Xiren's thoughts, and talked to Daiyu about the benefits of sisters living together.Daiyu was upset, but she couldn't help pretending to be close to Baoyu, which made her flustered.

Xiren didn't expect Baoyu to be so close to Miss Lin, and felt a little unhappy in his heart for a moment.Thinking about the time I have been serving Baoyu these days, it is not as good as Miss Lin's affection for a day.Thinking of this, Xiren felt a little bit disliked towards Daiyu, not at all the kind of good feeling he had before.

Xiren smiled and coaxed Baoyu to his bed, and he was finally relieved to coax him to sleep.Seeing that the light was still on in Daiyu's room, Xiren blew on the light outside, knocked on the door and entered Daiyu's room.

"Girl, I heard what you said just now. We were wrong. We didn't consider the girl's situation and disturbed the girl's rest." Xiren came up and apologized.The corner of Daiyu's mouth curled up slightly and she didn't express her opinion. She just felt that the attacker was a little bit displeased with her. This feeling never deceives people. achieve the ultimate goal.But Xiren is nothing in her eyes, so Daiyu will not wrong herself at all.

Xiren was not annoyed by Daiyu's attitude, he thought in his heart that Miss Lin had a big temper and made faces when she didn't sleep well. I can't make up my mind, I have the right to wrong the girl for one night, tomorrow morning I will go to the old lady to apologize, and try to let the girl get her wish sooner."

Daiyu thanked him with a smile, and ordered Parrot to send Xiren out, while she left Parrot inside the house.

"Are you the child of your grandmother's family?" Daiyu motioned for Parrot to sit beside her bed and asked in a low voice, "If I remember correctly, you used to be the second-class maid in front of my grandmother?"

"Young lady has a really good memory." Parrot said in a low voice, "I am not born in a family, I just sold myself to Jia's mansion."

Daiyu asked again how much silver he had sold, and Brother Ying told Daiyu honestly.Daiyu thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow morning I will ask my grandmother to ask for your deed of sale. Will you follow me in the future? I only have a snow goose by my side. She is young and many things are inconvenient. You are not young in Jia's mansion." Now, I will ask you to take care of things here in the future, and of course, I will not treat you badly."

Brother Parrot didn't think long before he agreed. She was given to Miss Lin by the old lady, and she couldn't go back no matter what. She was just a servant, and it didn't matter which master she served. , it would be better to follow Miss Lin, so she wasn't too entangled.

"Okay, since I will be a member of my Lin family in the future, then I can't use this name, so let's use Zijuan." Daiyu said in a fixed tone, "Then you tell me the first thing, I will call you in the east wing room tomorrow. If you ask your grandmother, what do you need to do every month?"

Zijuan told Daiyu one by one the monthly salaries of the servants of Jia's mansion, and the daily expenses of food and drink. Daiyu made some calculations and thought, this Jia's mansion is really extravagant and wasteful. The monthly fee is no less than 60 taels.In the past in the Lin Mansion, 60 taels was all the expenses of the whole family, of course, except for the favor of the father.

"From now on, you will be like snow geese. According to the rules of our Lin Mansion, one tael of silver and half a penny per month." What makes Lin's Mansion better than Jia's Mansion is that it treats servants better, like Baoyu's attacker , because she still received the moon silver under the old lady's share, so it was more than the other maids, but the total was only one tael of silver, and the big maids around Baoyu like Qingwen were only five hundred coins, which is half a penny. That's all.

"Thank you, girl." Zijuan was naturally happy that she had earned more money, and it was only half a penny before, so how could she be unhappy when she got twice as much money.

"Being by my side, there are no other requirements, but loyalty and a strict mouth." Daiyu yawned, "You go out too, I don't want anyone to wait here."

Early the next morning, Daiyu's first thing was to ask Mother Jia about getting Zijuan's deed of selling herself and changing her name.Here, Baoyu heard the words and said that her sister changed her name to Yazhi, and said that it was all her own sister, so why bother to mention that vulgar thing.

After hearing this at first, Lin Daiyu didn't understand what it meant, she went straight to Jia's mother and said that Baoyu was right, she brought back Zijuan's prostitute maid, and Daiyu realized that this vulgar thing is money.She was speechless for a while, but now she knows that at the critical moment, a penny is not a hero. If he doesn't have this vulgar thing when he goes out, he will starve himself to death sooner or later.

It’s just that Jia’s mother said so, and Daiyu knew that Jia’s mother would definitely not ask for the money again, so she asked Xueyan to present the agate beads that Lin Hai had prepared for Jia’s mother earlier and said: “Yesterday was all about Yu’er. Didn't realize it, daddy specially prepared it for grandma, don't know if grandma likes it?"

Mother Jia took one look at it and held it in her hand fondly. She directly agreed to Daiyu's proposal to live in the East Wing.Daiyu thought it was the effect of the Buddha beads, and she said in her heart that the old saying is true, that money can make ghosts turn the clock, but she didn't know that there were Xiren and Mrs. Wang's effects in it.